Church leaders in South Sudan -- which was proclaimed an independent nation on July 9, 2011 -- expressed their readiness to help secure peace, stability, growth, and development in their new country, according to the Ekklesia website.
"We stand willing to play our part in sharing the burden of responsibility which rests on the shoulders of the government of South Sudan," Archbishop Daniel Deng Bul of the Episcopal (Anglican) Church of Sudan said in a pastoral letter on Independence Day.
On July 9, General Salva Kir Mayardit was sworn in as the first president of South Sudan.
"I want to offer public amnesty to all those who took arms against the people of South Sudan. Let them lay down these arms and help us in building this new nation," Kir said in a speech broadcast live in East Africa.
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